Tuberville Speaks to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. About MAHA Agenda

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the work he is doing to promote the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. Specifically, Sen. Tuberville focused on protecting rural hospitals and banning dangerous dyes and unknown ingredients from our foods.

Read Sen. Tuberville's remarks below or on YouTube or Rumble.

TUBERVILLE: "Thank you. Seven hearings in the last few weeks. […] Can we not let you do your job? I mean, we don't do much up here, so we might as well let you work.

But I'd like to address something on the food prices. I'm on the Ag Committee. That's where this ought to be. Biden administration put 150,000 farms out of business when they were in charge-150,000. We're not having any damn food if we don't watch it. And we better back our farmers and do everything we possibly can because that trash that we get out of Brazil and Asia that we're eating, it ain't MAHA, I promise you that. So, thank for what you're doing. You're a hero in my state because the kids are starting to understand the food pyramid. And you've pushed it and you've made it work. Again, I came from a former business that tried to eat right with supplements and working out and all of that, but it has caught fire and thank you for what you're doing and continue to do what you're doing. […]

One thing I wanna ask you is I see where in our country, we have 10,000 ingredients that we can use in food. But in Europe, they only use 400 or 500 food ingredients. Could you explain that?"

KENNEDY: "Yeah. And thank you for that, Coach. And this is something again that Senator Sanders has shown leadership on. Congress has talked about this [for] many years. I actually got it done. It's the GRAS standard-Generally Recognized As Safe. It's a loophole that was added in 1948 to the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act to exclude from the necessity of testing foods that were traditionally used like vinegar, salts, weed, etcetera. The food industry, because FDA has been captured for 50 years, hijacked that and put every new lab-created monstrosity through so it doesn't have to be tested. We have 10,000 ingredients in our country. We don't-the FDA doesn't even know what they are. We have no list of them anywhere. None of them have been adequately tested. And they have 400 in Europe. And we're trying to close that loophole now so that and then go back and we've already have the 38 most, worst of those chemicals under review. And we're going to get rid of the bad ones one at a time."

TUBERVILLE: "Thank you. I'm going to say something about [what] Senator Kaine said earlier when he talked about Medicare and Medicaid. You know, in in my state it's gonna be a lot, like his state. You know, the wage index is killing us. Absolutely. And we but we can only change it through Congress. You know, it's been that way for forty years. And we struggle to keep our hospitals open. It's a simple fact that we're considered a low wage state. But don't you think things change in a 40-year period? We've really grown. Do you agree that Congress needs to fix this?"

KENNEDY: "Absolutely need to fix it. You know, Sheldon Whitehouse was here at the last hearing and talking about people in his state, doctors in his state get 20% less than a doctor right across the border in Massachusetts or Connecticut. The rural areas are the areas that are suffering the worst. I can't change it because of the Social Security Act. And but we need to change it or we're gonna lose all these rural hospitals."

TUBERVILLE: "Thank you. And food dyes-petroleum-based synthetic food dies-thank you for what you're doing. Thank you. And it's we just need to keep that momentum going. It's so important. There's no reason we should be using those dyes in our food.

And just say a few words about psychedelic treatments for PTSD. Thank you and President Trump for what you're doing for veterans. It's worked. It's worked in our state, and thank you for agreeing to look into it and make it happen more and more. Could you say something about psychedelics?"

KENNEDY: "[…] Ibogaine specifically is the most promising treatment for depression and PTSD that anybody's ever seen. And right now, veterans who have served this country, who have come back from deployment with severe PTSD and who are killing themselves, 23 a day, they're having to go down to Mexico to get this treatment. We don't know much about doses. We don't know much about screening. We don't know much about the protocols. We need to get this promising treatment here. We need to do the proper studies and make it available to these vets, and we're doing that right away."

TUBERVILLE: "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman."

Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.

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